TURKEY: Perseverance

Two months ago, when Russia, like a clumsy
cat, was trying to get her paws on the elusive Finns, Turkey's Foreign
Minister Shokru Saracoglu talked tough (TIME, Feb. 26). Turkish Defense
Minister General Naci Tinaz was busy building military roads to the
Russian frontier. Last week General Tinaz resigned "for reasons of
health." Day earlier President Ismet Inönü and Foreign Minister
Saracoglu had a 90-minute talk with the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe
Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was about to go to London for a
conference. What they told him: 1) "No danger of war exists in the
Balkans"; 2) "Turkey does...